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[MrsHuxtable]

As if ttc wasn't nerve wrecking enough, we like the extra challenge of getting that BFP while still breastfeeding a baby or toddler. While this isn't an easy endouvour, it certainly isn't impossible as many graduates on the previous threads prove.

I'm posting a link here for any newcomers about fertility while breastfeeding.

kellymom.com/bf/normal/fertility/

Am also wonderig if you'd like to have some sort of stats for the tread members. I'll just start myself.

MrsHuxtable, 29, ttc#2 from April, on pp cycle 4, luteal phase defect

Hiya I just POAS - couldn't wait till tomorrow. I'm gutted I got a bfn in the worst way.
I used a sainsbury's cheapy and didn't look at the box or instructions first. All tests iv done previously say it's a positive if a line appears in both windows. I hadn't even got off the loo when 2 lines appeared, for about 3 minutes I was soooooo excited. Went to the box and on it is a pic of a positive test with 1 line and 1 cross I actually thought I got a positive result. Absolutely gutted. AF still hasnt arrived - 13days late, but I think I ovulated a few days ago and am currently fertile. DP isn't home until Friday night so I think we've missed this months chance as well

Oh no . That is soo disappointing! Especially with the test confusion - how annoying to design them like that!

Hopefully you're still in with a chance this cycle though. Fingers crossed!

Thank you. Been down all day. Hate getting bfn's even more than AF arriving. Iv got some Ovulation sticks arriving tomorrow from a lovely poster on here who's got her baby now & doesn't need them. I know nothing about them. When is best to use them? Do you have to do it everyday after a period?

We used OPKs when conceiving DD - as Harriet says start testing a few days after AF, but the box should tell you exactly when as it depends a bit on the average cycle length if I recollect correctly.

Funny things about OPKs I remember was that afternoon rather than first morning urine was best for testing (the hormone surge might not show up early in the morning), and also that unlike with pregnancy tests, a faint line doesn't count - the line has to be as dark as the control line.

Good luck with it all! We need more BFPs on the thread soon!

Oh I don't think there is such a thing as tmi on this thread Harriet ! No expert by any means but EWCM must be a good sign, right? I noticed an increase in mine in the couple of weeks before AF turned up. How us it going with your OH doing the naps? And are the nights getting any better?

DD has slept through the night twice in the last few days - cue lots of confused waking by DH and I and going over to check she's ok.

Hi can I join.
We are TTC #2, DD is nearly 16 months and still feeds lots. I got my first period the day after her first birthday but have only had 1 since then due to DD being ill/teething and upping her milk intake which stops my period.
It seems like all the other mums with toddlers are pregnant already and I want not too big an age gap.
Have just sent DH out to buy some preg tests as I've been having heartburn and abdominal pain but I think I'm obsessing and imagining symptoms. Got lots of BFNs last week but I find POAS so addictive

Hi Lovepigeon and welcome! I know exactly what you mean when all your friends seem to be pregnant again and you're still waiting. I'd have liked a smaller gap between my first two, but now I have dd I can't imagine having a different child, so I want the gap I have, if that makes any sense... now wanting dc3, and impatient again...
And Harriet - I definitely had EWCM on and off in the run up to AF coming back, so I would take it as a good sign - both times I have felt things begin to get going down there a couple of months before AF was back.

I'm back-and so is my AF! Ridiculous as I spent the last week on holiday, DS was sharing our room so went back to feeding every 2 hours at night (was previously feeding 8pm, 2am, 6am and in the day too). Just over a month ago I felt nauseous for two weeks and got really excited thinking I was pregnant...realise now that can be a sign of AF returning. Am gonna start OPK's but I guess my periods could be really erratic for a while.

Sorry about your BFN Justhayley Sucks hat your DH is away at the wrong time too.

AF started again today, giving me an even shorted LP of 5 days despite the B6. At least it didn't seem to affect my milk supply at all. Does anyone know if you are best to take it the whole month, or just post ovulation? I started 50mg when I started getting EWCM, then upped to 100mg post ovulation.

Wild - I definitely also noticed patches of EWCM before AF returned, you never know you might even get lucky and catch that first egg!

Wouldbe - do you mixed feed with formula when you're dropping feeds?

Hi to lovepigeon and Catherine, welcome to the thread!

eggs I think I read that you have to take the B6 pre-ovulation. I just take it every day. Also read that you have to take it with other B vits (eg B12) because just taking B6 can cause deficiencies.

When I posted the other day I thought AF had arrived 4dpo but it turned out to be spotting again. I'm now on day 8 post ovulation so the B6 seems to have nudged my LP at least a couple of days. Really don't think I'm pg as I have symptoms of impending AF but good to see the B6 might be doing something.

Ooh what a fast moving thread we have all of a sudden! Good to read everyone's news, and welcome pigeon!

I really agree with those writing about age gaps - ideally we'd like a small gap but you just can choose these things, and things somehow work out no matter what the gap ends up being. I actually get quite annoyed with people advising to have a certain age gap, when they have no idea what is going on with the couple in question. Like the people who kept telling us it was time to think about having children when we had already had two mmc they didn't know about.

The B6 needs to be taken all through your cycle and like someone said upthread in combination with a B Complex, but assuming you take pre-conception vitamins, that should be fine as well.

The random patches of ewcm can be your body trying to ovulate but not managing quite yet due to too much prolactin. But it means your on the way and I'm sure AF will be back soon.

Sorry to hear that, Harriet :( must be v frustrating.

9 dpo here and no sign of AF so B6 definitely doing summat. I also have fluorescent yellow wee from the vitamins

Yes Harriet so sorry you're feeling down. I know it is all just anecdotal but I know several people who conceived really quickly the second time after having a difficult time with their first. Really hope AF makes an appearance soon.

Count - excellent news re B6 making a difference! How much are you taking?

No particular news here, just approaching mid-cycle for our first month TTC. DD still feeding quite a bit during the night though.

Taking Holland & Barrett's B-50 plus 50mg of B6 on top of that. (Just because I went out and bought the B6, then realised need to take other B vits as well.)

Sorry to bang on about it but the colour of my pee is extraordinary

That's great, Harriet.

10dpo now and on day 30 of cycle - normally only 24 days. But just got a BFN so it must be just that my LP has lengthened rather than a missed AF. Not too gutted as think DH and I timed it wrong again, and also v pleased at longer LP.